Spend a week at Tregoose, a light and spacious house on a hill looking over the beautiful beach at Polzeath, and you’d quite literally have the thighs and bottom of a Victoria’s Secret model. The road to the beach is short but satisfyingly steep; one return journey each day and you’d be doing some serious toning-up in the lower regions – add a pram into the mix (only if you have baby, obviously, otherwise that’d be weird) and you would have, after just one week, buns of steel.
I was invited to stay at Tregoose by Perfect Stays, who specialise in luxury holiday properties in Devon and Cornwall. It was supposed to be a huge family affair, with sister, brother, both in-laws, a niece, a dog and a baby. And the house, which sleeps twelve, would have easily accommodated us all without even needing to convert the television room. (Fortunately, because Mr AMR liked to use that as his escape hideaway, lying on a giant beanbag and messing around with computer games.) There were three double bedrooms and two bathrooms underneath an absolutely huge reception room, as well as another bedroom with en suite down a separate stairway, with doors leading into the garden.
A self-contained suite, almost; perfect for people who want a bit of distance from the hullaballoo of the communal areas. I’m probably not explaining this layout very well, but if you like floorplans (I am obsessed with them, being a Rightmove fanatic) then you can see theirs here...